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From: billy@MIX.COM
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Subject: Re: POP3 vs. IMAP
Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 18:32:01 +0000 (UTC)
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Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> writes:

> Telnet is old and terribly insecure. It has some limited usefulness to
> access LAN devices that are to dumb to have ssh, but other than that it
> should never be used because telent (like ftp) send cleartext passwords.

Well, there is NTLM, Kerberos, ...

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2941

Telnet sessions, on the other hand, are not encrypted.

Billy Y..
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